Improvement in wagom-brakes



Patented Nov. 24,1874.

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OFFICE,

GEORGE SEEGER, OF OLARKS HILL, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT EN WAGON-BRAKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 157,229, datedNovember 24, 1874; application liled November 3, 1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE SEEGEE, of Clarks Hill, in the county ofTippecanoe and State of Indiana, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Wagon-Brakes; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reterence being hadto the annexed drawings making part of this specification, in Which-Figure l is a perspective view of a wagonbed turned upside down, to showthe mode of attaching the bra-ke. Fig. 2 is a view of the deviceemployed for attaching the brake tc the bed of the Wagon.

The same letters are employed in both ligures in the indication ofidentical parts.

The object of this improvement is to furnish a convenient means forattaching and detaching the brake.

A represent the wagon-bed, of any desired form, and B B are thebrake-shoes. The shoes are attached to the transverse rod B', whichextends under the bed, and is bent at each end into a crank-form toreceive the shoes. Itis suspended from the dovetail-plates C C, whichare constructed to receive it. They are tapered in the form ofdovetails, as shown, and also beveledV on the edges, where they engagecorresponding dovetailed and beveled lugs D, which are bolted to thebed, near the bottom. As the dovetailed plates fit into the lugs, byslipping down to their bearings, the

brakes are very readily attached. When thus attached, they are securedby turning the tapered buttons E E, which serve as wedges to prevent thebrake-rod rising after the buttons, or other equivalent keys, areinterposed between it and the body of the bed. Removing the keys,however, the brakes are easily detached by merely lifting the wings outof `the lugs. The arm F is attached to the rod B', rigidly, so as tooperate the brakes, as it is turned, by means of' the connecting-rod Gand lever H. The latter is constructed with a-slot to engage anelongated head of the pivot H, the lever, when attached, turning underthe head. It can only be detached when the head is in line with theslot. H2 is the ordinary ratchet for holding the lever when the brakeshave been set.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. The mechanism for conveniently attaching the brake to the wagon-bedand detaching the same, consisting of the dovetailed plates C,supporting the brake-rod, the corresponding lugs D, and the keys E, allcombined substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with dovetailed plates C, lugs D, lever F,connecting-rod G, lever H, and pivot Hl, connected by the elongated headand slot, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE SEEGER.

the brake B B', the

Witnesses:

- ELIAS WOODRUFF,

RICHARD B. WALL.

